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Allow muting a person only for me
Sometimes I am in a meeting where one of the persons in the meeting is actually near me in the world outside the screen. In this case the sound is a bit maddening since there is a small delay between the sound from the person and the sound through the teams interface. In these cases, I would like to mute the person only for me since I am sitting near and can hear the person fine without headphones. Right now I need to takeoff headphones when the person is talking and putting it back as the person finishes talking.
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Looking for this feature as well! For the same reasons as stated above, but also so that we can stream music or a video during a meeting break, for example, and people can mute it if they aren't interested.
Did you already put this as a wish on the feedbackportal?
Created a Feedback Hub suggestion: https://aka.ms/AAwc7bh
(Or search Feedback Hub for "Teams Meeting - Allow muting a person only for me")
This is a feature offered in Discord already and for the same reasons - sometimes you are in a call that it makes no sense to have on speaker due to not everyone in the room being on the same call. No idea why it wouldn't be added to Teams as a baseline
As more of us are returning to office and continue doing online meetings with multiple stakeholders, can we please have an option to mute the colleague sitting next to us?
There should be options where I can right-click my colleague and choose "mute for me" or "mute for everyone". It's really distracting when my colleague talks and often we can't simply move to another room.
Please implement this feature ASAP, it is truly essential
On behalf of everyone in the world working with Teams in the office: please implement this feature. Teams is practically unusable with multiple people in the same room connecting to the same session. The echo caused by the small delay between real voice and voice output through the headset is so annoying.
- How can it still be impossible to mute/unmute a specific person only for me?! Awful lack of a feature.
Moving to a conference room and using its audio system is sometimes not practical and often just not possible.
Maybe if Microsoft provided some "virtual" equivalent of a meeting room and treat all headset microphones as being part of that room, this could also solve that issue.
- paul_menhart and Martin_Kalchgruber have you tried voice isolation yet in Teams? I think that will solve your problem and I saw something about this getting automatically turned on in meetings where people are in the same room early next year.
karen_dredske I think you misunderstand the problem, or voice isolation, or both.
Voice isolation makes sure that your microphone only submits your own voice, nothing else.
The problem people have, is that they hear people twice: Once over the (literal) air, because they are sitting next to each other, and once via cable, via MS Teams.
Voice isolation can not help this.
- The fact that this is still not possible is actually embarrassing.
Not being able to mute colleagues in the same room makes using Teams painful or downright impossible in some scenarios. At our company its has become common practice that everyone leaves the room and finds an empty office space whenever we need to join a Teams-Meeting together. Welcome in 2024.
